Series editors are: George Hall, MB BS PhD FIBiol FRCA, Chairman and Professor of Anaesthesia, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK P Neville Robinson, FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK. Other titles in the series are: "Obstetric Anaesthesia" by Neville Robinson and David Vaughan; "Paediatric Anaesthesia" by Ann Black and Angus McEwan; "Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anaesthesia" by John Gothard, Andrea Kelleher and Elizabeth Haxby; and "Trauma and Orthopaedic Anaesthesia" by Geraldine Edge and Mary Fennelly.